Seattle police move in on Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone

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Seattle police have been working to clear out a protest zone in the city that has become “lawless and brutal” after weeks of violence, including four shootings and the deaths of two teenagers, the city’s police chief said on Wednesday.

The move came after Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the gathering of people in and around the police department’s East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park an “unlawful assembly,” the city’s police chief, Carmen Best, said in a statement.

The East Precinct was abandoned weeks ago after protesters clashed with Seattle police outside the station house in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police offer.

The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) area outside the precinct has been the scene of a flurry of gun violence over the past several nights that has left two Black teenagers dead and two more people hospitalized.

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